david esmay

I emailed Rep Lewis last year about the photo ID bill. The Greensboro News and Record published an excerpt of the email exchange on April 19, 2011. It is still pertinent today. Basically all the photo ID law does is make it harder for poor people to vote, and doesn’t prevent “voter fraud”.
Snip:
Is that ID on the up and up?
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The bill does not address the issue of “fake” IDs, specify a verification process by the election official, or require other agencies to share databases for verification of IDs. So Ms. McCloy is correct that the bill does not include a system or funding for verification of the IDs,
and as a result the remaining questions (computer system for ID verification, electronic pollbooks , cost of such a system, security, etc.) are not addressed in the bill.
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Obviously the verification process is going to be highly subjective and predicated on the suspicion that you’re not entitled to vote unless you can prove otherwise.http://www.news-record.com/blog/54431/entry/116116